World version update

Chapter 311 Information Mapping, Cyber ​​Re-emergence

When the words "cyber version" finally settled in Lu Yan's mind, the gray space-time that had been temporarily frozen due to the version update rippled like a stone thrown into a calm lake.

Everything that was frozen began to thaw at a speed visible to the naked eye, and color and movement returned to the world.

Above the stars, the God Space, which occupies the entire astral dimension and exudes boundless majesty and sacredness, keenly sensed the final direction of the version change almost at the same moment Lu Yan made his choice.

During version updates, He can transcend version barriers through His transcendent status, projecting His will and interfering with His power.

However, if His enormous body were allowed to undergo a complete version change, the immense power arising from the collision of infinite version rules would be enough to cause an immeasurable impact on Him, and might even distort His essence.

This is a catastrophe that even the unique beings of this world cannot completely escape. Only those who truly embark on the unique path of all worlds and completely transcend the constraints of a single version can maintain their own harmony and immortality in the face of such great power.

Without any hesitation, the brilliance on the surface of that indescribably enormous white sphere suddenly receded, dimming rapidly like the receding tide.

Then, as if it had merged into the void, it disappeared silently into the astral dimension and even the entire Mysterious Version.

Just as no one knows where He came from, no one knows how the God Realm left.

Their arrival was earth-shattering, and their departure was utterly unexpected, leaving behind only seven righteous gods who looked at each other in bewilderment and lingering fear.

"hateful!"

The roar of the God of Steam and Machines echoed in the astral plane. The mechanical kingdom behind Him, which had just been nearly crushed by the white orb of light, was now filled with a sense of humiliation and resentment, even though the pressure had eased considerably.

The other six righteous gods also had grim faces. They had just tried to fight the main god space to the death, but in the blink of an eye, the other party had packed up and left, leaving behind a mess that was about to be turned upside down.

They were filled with fury at being tricked, yet they were powerless against the unfathomable God.

What made them even more desperate was that the torrent of version updates had already surged in, an unstoppable force sweeping across countless versions.

"Consolidate power and cling to the old ways!"

The Eternal Sun was the first to react. Its body, which had transformed into a blazing sun, dimmed its light and began frantically reclaiming the power of faith and authority scattered throughout the Mysterious Version.

The other gods followed suit. All they could do now was to reclaim as much of the authority and power they had previously divided among the ancient corpses as possible, while trying their best to seal off the enormous corpse above the stars that exuded an ominous aura.

In the blink of an eye, the myriad strange phenomena that arose above the star realm due to the confrontation between the seven gods and the chief god vanished as if wiped away by an invisible giant hand.

Immediately afterwards, a cold, hard texture, full of order and logic, began to replace the original mystery and enigma, and quickly spread throughout the world.

The once star-studded sky, filled with ethereal and spiritual energy, has been replaced by a vast, boundless steel canopy gleaming with metallic sheen.

The sky was like a giant dome, enveloping the entire world.

A false sun, radiating a pale light, hangs high beneath the steel canopy, mechanically fulfilling its duty to illuminate the world.

However, when the light fell on Lu Yan's skin, he felt no warmth whatsoever, only a bone-chilling coldness and alienation.

On the earth, those classical and mysterious Gothic-style buildings crumbled rapidly like sandcastles.

Instead, towering skyscrapers, gleaming with the cold light of technology, have sprung up.

These towers are cast entirely from an unknown alloy, their surfaces covered with complex pipes and flashing indicator lights. They soar into the clouds, their tips seemingly piercing the steel canopy, connecting with it to form the basic framework of this cyber world.

On the streets, the old horse-drawn carriages and steam trains have disappeared, replaced by hovercars and high-speed maglev trains shuttling along pre-set tracks, emitting a deep hum.

When the last trace of mystery belonging to the eerie version was completely swept away by the cold sense of technology, and when the familiar, nerve-wracking mist filled the air, Lu Yan knew that the version update was complete.

He could clearly sense that the ethereal and spiritual power that had once permeated the mysterious version had dissipated, replaced by a purer, more violent, yet more difficult-to-control spiritual energy.

In the deeper void, a vast and boundless sea of ​​psionic energy is surging, the source of cyberpunk psionic energy.

However, Lu Yan did not immediately explore this familiar yet unfamiliar cyber world. Almost the instant the version update was completed, his mind sank entirely into his own underworld.

Compared to the dramatic shift in style from the mysterious to the cyberpunk world outside, Lu Yan's underworld is currently undergoing a truly earth-shattering transformation.

"Boom!"

A thunderous roar, as if the heavens and earth were being created, echoed endlessly throughout the entire underworld.

A vast and powerful force of divine order and rules, mixed with an immeasurable torrent of faith originating from endless information disturbances, surged wildly towards the core of the underworld, the majestic city of Fengdu, like a river bursting its banks.

Fengdu City, the core city symbolizing the divine power of the underworld, is now shining with unprecedented brilliance.

The city walls and palaces, which originally seemed somewhat illusory, rapidly solidified and expanded under the nourishment of a vast amount of order and faith.

On the city wall, countless profound inscriptions flowed, exuding an aura of majesty that suppressed all evil and judged all spirits.

The divine order, like a spider web, spread rapidly from Fengdu City to all directions of the underworld.

In the heavens above Fengdu City, the countless gods who were originally just blurry phantoms were now bathed in the torrent of faith, and their forms became clear and solid at a speed visible to the naked eye.

They are majestic, compassionate, brave, or wise, as if they are trying to break free from the shackles of ancient myths and legends and descend into this nascent divine kingdom, each fulfilling their duties to jointly build a complete divine court system.

"Sure enough!"

Sensing the astonishing changes within the underworld, Lu Yan's tense nerves finally relaxed, a relieved smile appearing on his face, his eyes gleaming with barely suppressed excitement.

All of this was within his expectations, and even better than he had anticipated.

During the version update process, different versions will be mapped to each other; this phenomenon is called information mapping.

This is one of the version update rules that Lu Yan had long understood after experiencing several version iterations. Of course, the strength of this information mapping will be affected by the distance between versions and the intensity of information disturbance.

Special existences like the Great Collapse version, which are pieced together from countless broken versions, have chaotic rules that actually weaken the effect of information mapping to the greatest extent.

In the recently released mysterious version, Lu Yan put in a lot of effort.

He first used the trade union as a base, and then cleverly spread the beliefs and legends of the underworld to every corner of the mysterious continent like dandelion seeds.

Whether in the strictly controlled heartland of the Seven Kingdoms or in the remote overseas colonies, legends about the underworld and the mysterious Emperor Fengdu have been passed down to varying degrees.

Moreover, Lu Yan's own experience in the mysterious version is also quite epic.

From devouring the River Styx, which symbolizes the power of death, to slaying the King of Angels who wields the power of slaughter, to finally confronting the seven great gods face to face, and even attracting the descent of the chief god.

Each and every one of these events is enough to leave a significant mark on the history of the Mysterious Version, and has a very high degree of popularity.

The most crucial move was that he used the hands of various hidden evil gods to send those urban versions of books, which were enough to overturn historical understanding and ignite ideological changes, into the entire mysterious version, and used them as a spark to ignite a great revolution that swept the entire world.

This move directly rewrote the historical process of the mysterious version being deliberately blocked by the seven righteous gods, and the intensity of the information disturbance it caused was simply immeasurable.

Such a massive information disturbance, through the information mapping phenomenon during version updates, is enough to cause ripples in the name of the Underworld across countless diverse versions.

If the greater the distance between versions, the weaker the effect of information mapping, then the conceptual enhancement brought by this version update alone would probably be enough for his Divine Court Underworld to rise to the top in one step and be completely formed.

Even if the ideal effect was not achieved, the benefits gained by the Divine Court and the Underworld at this moment have already exceeded expectations.

The massive amount of circulating concepts and information disturbances acted like the purest nourishment, allowing the still somewhat immature divine order to grow and mature rapidly.

Prior to this, Lu Yan's divine order could at most suppress the earth angels of Sequence Two in the Mysterious Version.

Faced with a top-tier powerhouse like the Angel King of Sequence One, who wields unique authority, his divine order is almost powerless and cannot be shaken in the slightest.

However, now that the Divine Court and the Underworld have been greatly improved and strengthened, the situation is different.

Lu Yan could clearly sense that although there was still a huge gap in strength between him and a powerhouse at the level of the Angel King, his Divine Court Order had already acquired the power to initially suppress the Angel King's incomplete and unique nature.

This means that when facing a powerhouse at the level of an Angel King again, they will no longer be powerless to fight back.

"The essence of the Divine Court of the Heavens is to spread the name of the Divine Court throughout countless versions, and to gain the conceptual recognition and faith of countless versions. In a way, this is similar to the One Path of All Worlds."

Lu Yan pondered to himself, his eyes growing brighter. "The information mapping brought about by the Unchanging One's traits is the best aid in spreading the prestige of the Divine Court of the Heavens, which can save me an immeasurable amount of time and energy."

Thinking of this, a satisfied smile involuntarily appeared on Lu Yan's face.

This risky undertaking has yielded far greater rewards than expected.

Of course, he was also aware that although his own strength had improved significantly, and he was even able to briefly clash with beings at the level of the Angel King.

However, compared to the unique being who truly stands at the pinnacle of the version, there is still a fundamental difference.

Moreover, this time he cleverly used the Supreme God, making that unfathomable being his pawn.

Given the nature of the Supreme God, Lu Yan could almost foresee that he would inevitably face His thunderous counterattack in the days to come.

Therefore, for Lu Yan, the most urgent task at present is still to do everything possible to improve his own strength in order to cope with the various crises that may arise in the future.

"And this cyber version is the biggest opportunity for me to improve my strength."

Lu Yan slowly withdrew his mind from the jubilant underworld and turned his gaze back to this cyberpunk world that was both familiar and strange.

Among the many versions available, he ultimately settled on this cyber version, primarily because of the Soul World.

His underworld was a small piece that he had forcibly torn off from the vast soul world of the intelligent God.

The two can be said to share the same roots and origins.

If he could allow his underworld to devour the complete soul world of the intelligent God, then his underworld would definitely have a chance to ascend to the heavens in one step, directly skipping the level of blessed lands and advancing to the level of a true small world.

This is Lu Yan's core and most important goal in coming to the cyber world.

With this thought in mind, Lu Yan began to carefully examine his surroundings.

It was still the same bizarre, neon-lit futuristic sci-fi metropolis, with towering skyscrapers, constantly moving hovercars, and a mix of electronic and metallic scents in the air.

However, when his gaze swept over the enormous towers that supported the steel canopy that stretched across every corner of the city, Lu Yan's pupils suddenly contracted.

He was all too familiar with the shape of those towers; they were clearly the Soul Computing Center!
The intelligent God uses these soul computing centers scattered throughout the world to relentlessly exploit the souls of ordinary beings, extracting massive amounts of soul computing power in order to continuously improve and expand His vast and boundless soul world.

Lu Yan clearly remembered that when he last descended into this cyber version, there were usually only one or two soul computing centers in a giant city.

But now, only a few years later, the entire city is sprawling with one menacing soul computing center after another, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

They are like cold, steel behemoths, greedily drawing upon the soul light of all living beings in this world. Their sheer number and scale are utterly appalling.

Such a dramatic change sent a strong shock through Lu Yan's heart.

At the same time, an extremely ominous thought flashed through the depths of his mind like lightning.

"Is an intelligent God attempting to ascend to become the sole being in this world?"

(End of this chapter)